Comments on: Brighton: Not for Mehttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/
Living in London; Traveling and Eating EverywhereSun, 09 Apr 2017 03:53:16 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Tedhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-10006
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:20:20 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-10006hastings is a boring hell hole on a par with penzance full of young gangs, old biddys, caravan parks and a woefully over-hyped national trust site.I’m sorry but i’ve lived in brighton all my life and i’ve seen it all year round, the shitty parts the good parts the people who live here and the people who come to visit and i’m gonna go ahead and give you this.

Yes, there are shitty parts, it is not too be looked at, its an old victorian era town which holds its buildings along the seafront (many if not all are grade listed to a high degree). Yes parts of the seaside are dreary and the pier is absolutely horrific, no-one goes there, only tourists and ALL the residents wish you wouldn’t its an eyesore and a money drainer.

The real beauty of brighton, to me, as a resident. Is its green spaces, Beautiful period buildings, Hove lawns and the beach along by the meeting place cafe in the summer, the food in the kensington (chicken burger is the best in the south of england, believe me, i’ve tried every notable one on a trip down to cornwall) and cafes along the north laines, the monumental scale of public transport and the living people inside of it.

Coming as a tourist not only from london but america you wouldve experienced this:
Arrive at brighton station, go outside onto busy street full of angry cabbies and rushing people for trains or worse.
Head down west street towards the sea taking in all of the worst parts of brighton the most run down park and the abandoned businesses. Why are these places run down and abandoned? Because brighton is famous to londoners as a “party city” They come in their droves on the trains getting pissed and littering the parks before heading into the worst club in the city just down west street and turning brighton into a hellhole at night, or taking their family and ramming the beach right at the bottom of west street, where all the crappiest, dreariest most depressing “attractions!” and “family fun” are placed.

My advice to you is come visit again, take a stroll through the north laines, visit the kensington and get a good lunch, then head out along madiera drive until you come to the angel/meeting place cafe. sit down in the sun on the beach (by the way just as a note i prefer pebbles to sand, i like to put my shoes and socks back on after swimming in the sea NOT filled with a billion tiny annoying grains of sand) listen to the buskers or a wedding on the bandstand just near you and stay a while and watch the people barbeque on hove lawns and see the sunset over the period buildings. Just don’t for all our sakes stick within the town centre, its not a nice place too be. The pavilion gardens? maybe, st. annes wells is much better however.

I wouldn’t say my town was melancholy i would just say the town CENTRE is.
Visit the dyke, the downs the outlying suburbs like the one I live in. There’s ancient woodland where you care too look for it and huge stories too be told about certain places, also i assume you didn’t go inside the pavilion? i haven’t been much myself but i’m told its pretty fantastic.

It seems you came here, saw the shitty street the station backed onto and of course the lanes which are insurmountably more dreary than the laines and thought, set in your mind “this place, and everything in it, is boring and will be bad” Get rid of that bias please, i don’t go to south-end and think all of london is crap, or see the scum washing out of the thames and think the city isn’t clean, nor do i care about the insufferable alcohol prices because i know, as a tourist, im sheperoned into the places the city wants me to go, Near the trainstations, near the things the council advertises.

Dont be a sheep, come live a while and feel the living brighton.

]]>By: natdogghttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8121
Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:38:40 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8121Hastings has everything Brighton has minus the seediness. Hastings actually looks very similar to Brighton except you aren’t expected to demonstrate a commitment to some kind of carefree new age hedonistic woeful lifestyle. Having said this, my friend visited from LA and couldn’t understand why everything was closed so early given that it was supposed to be the hedonistic capital of Europe haha. Mostly it is well off students curiously dipping their toes into the hedonistic philosophy with the option of returning to their upwardly mobile parents at a whim and those who have been thoroughly burnt by said bankrupt philosophy.
]]>By: Samhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8119
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:36:43 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8119“It is jam packed with 6 million a year all pretty much bemused as to what they are actually there to see.”
Haha, this.
I was there today and was kinda disappointed 😦
I preferred Hastings for some reason. At least it had a proper tourist attraction which was worth visiting. Brighton is so hyped, but to me it just seemed like a duller version of Camden…with a stony beach…
]]>By: natdogghttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8118
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:58:11 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8118Or you could stay 25 years and still not spot it.
]]>By: natdogghttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8117
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:56:25 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8117call me hahaha.
]]>By: natdogghttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8116
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:38:25 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8116I am English but hate this continual American bashing also. Well said YankeeGirl. At last an American who isn’t too well mannered to say it. The good folk of Brighton feel they have somehow outgrown all forms of racism, (see smugcloud episode of SouthPark for parallel), but North Americans are somehow open season. The jewel 1 hour from London hahaha.
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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:34:50 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-8115Well said. Shabby and beer stained touting an image for ‘craziness’ that is ill deserved. I was unfortunate enough to live there for some years. The gentleman above states that he’s glad it isn’t inundated with tourists which is a lie. It is jam packed with 6 million a year all pretty much bemused as to what they are actually there to see.
]]>By: NYC Girlhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7830
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:11:04 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7830I’m American and I live in London. I’ve been to Brighton and lean more towards the “melancholy charm” opinion stated in ‘John Irwin’s’ post, but still I prefer London for it’s vibe and access to the rest of Europe. Thanks for the food suggestions! I’ll check them out next time I go back.
]]>By: Proud to be Britishhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7502
Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:07:06 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7502Every place has its good and its bad points. The only comment I can make to anyone that doesn’t like our country is you can always leave- be my guest!
]]>By: Yankeegirlhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7242
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:47:44 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7242I forgot to say, “stars and stripes forever” !
]]>By: Yankeegirlhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7241
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:45:53 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-7241Signs of the British inferiority complex popping up in the comments eh? If Brighton is so wonderful then why isn’t it named ‘The Jewel 1 hour away from London by train”?
AmericaninLondon, the way you feel about Brighton is the way I feel about everything this former Empire has to offer. And I salute how politely you responded to those America bashing comments.
]]>By: An American in Londonhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-6468
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:45:08 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-6468Hi Charles – Tell me what you *really* think of Americans, lol! It’s too bad you have such a low opinion of everyone belonging to a nation of 300 million people, but in any case, if you read my post again, I hope you’ll see I didn’t think Brighton was entirely horrible. It just wasn’t for me. Query whether your view of Brighton might be colored by your fond university memories?

Having been here for five years now (and loving every minute of it), I like to think this devotion to London suggests that I’m not roaming the world hoping to recreate America wherever I go.

Who cares what some American thinks. I used to visit Brigton as a child and enjoyed it ….. PEBBLES TOO! I lived in Brigton while at university and found it a delight still. I visited last year for the first time in over 30 years. Tragically many of the wonderful things of Brighton are gone but the place still has charm and interest – so unlike the miserable Atlantic City and the gruesome Jersey shore.

Heaven save us from Americans. What they want is ‘America’ where ever they go. Open your eyes young man – travel – stop – see – and stop judging everything America – heave save us from America too.

]]>By: An American in Londonhttps://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-5938
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:35:12 +0000http://rwapplewannabe.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/brighton-not-for-me/#comment-5938bittersweetcity – I did like Bill’s very much, and no, I haven’t been back to Brighton since this blog post.

toby – In defense of my home country, it’s a nation of 300+ million people, so there’s undoubtedly a lot of different cultures to be found there, but I’m sensing you have a narrow definition of what “genuine culture” is.

i’m glad that you did not like Brighton. if everyone appreciated how cool it is we would be inundated by Americans with bum bags and large cameras, trying to soak up some genuine culture, as their own is trapped within New York and parts of the East coast.

You could stay here for a month and not spot whats good about Brighton. thank god.